Improvement in wardrobe-bedsteads



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL N. NEWOOMB, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY S. HALE, ARTEMAS KILBURN, J. W. HALE, CHENEY KILBUBN, AND WARREN HALE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WARDROBE-BEDSTEADS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 182,465, dated September 19, 1876; application filed August 18, 1875.

' the folding bedstead for which Letters Patent N 0. 148,940 were granted to E. E. Everitt March 24, 1874; and the object of my invention is to render the foot-board self-adjusting to the different positions which it has to assume. V

In the accompanying drawing, Figures 1 and 2 represent side views of the bedstead in difi'erent positions, with my improvement.

A is the head of the bedstead; B, the foot board, and D the bed-frame, which is hinged to the head at a, and to the foot-board at b, so that the frame can be turned up against the head, and the foot-board turned to a position in which it will form a finish for the wardrobe or other article of furniture which the turned-up bedstead is made to represent, all as described in the said patent of E. E. Everitt. In the patented bedstead, however, it was necessary to adjust the foot-board and lock it when the bed-frame was turned down, as in Fig. 1, and also to adjust it when the bed-frame was elevated.

In order to dispense with the necessity of thus adjusting the foot-board, I arrange on one or both sides of the bed-frame a bar, H, connected at one end to a pin, m, on the head A, and at the other end to a pin, a, on the foot-board, these pins m and n bearing such 7 relation to the hinges a and b that the rod H will always cause the foot-board to turn on its hinge b as the bed-frame is elevated or depressed, and to adjust and retain the footboard in its proper position, whether it serves to support the bed-frame as in Fig. 1., or as an ornamental finish for the top of an imitation wardrobe when the bed-frame is elevated.

I claim as my invention- The combination of the head A, lied-frame D, and foot-board B of a folding bedstead, with the bar or barsrH, substantially as and for the purpose set'forth..

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL N. NEWOOMB.

Witnesses HUBERT HowsoN, HARRY SMITH. 

